Curtain-rod.



PATBNTED MAY 22, 1906.

T. G. RICHARDS.

CURTAIN ROD.

APPLIUATION FILED JULYz?, 190s.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lratentea May 22, 1906.

Application filed July 27, 1905. Serial No. 271,47.

To a/ZZ whom t may cm1/cern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. RICHARDS, a resident of Winsted, in the county of Litch- -lield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Rods; and I do h ereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 1

My invention relates to improvements in curtain-rods, and more particularly to an improved permanently-xed ornamental end for extension-rods, the object of the invention being to provide an improved construction of end which can be cheaply manufactured and assembled and easily and securely attached to the end of the rod and which will be strong and durable in use.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views of details of construction.

1 represents a tubular rod of sheet metal, to which my improved end is secured, as will now be explained.

2 is an ornamental ball, which may be corrugated, as shown, or ornamented in any other manner and provided with openingsat its opposite ends to receive a rod'3, which latter is passed through an opening in a disk 4, closing one openinoin the ball, and at this same end of the rodjit is ribbed or roughened so as to irmly bind when forced into the cylindrical bore of an ornamental head -held tightly against the disk. The rod 3 near its opposite end is provided with an annular flange or shoulder 9, located in a depressed portion of a cap 7, and holds the latter tightly against ball 2, closing the opening therein. A concave-convex washer 8 is inserted on rod 3 against shoulder 9, and the end ofthe rod is then upset to secure the washer in position. This cap 7 is inserted on the rod 1 with the end of the rod 1 around washer 8, and the cap 7 and rod are contracted to clamp the end thereon, and as the washer 8 will hold the eX- treme end of rod 1 from being contracted the cap 7 will be securely clamped and the end cannot work off the rod. By this method of fastening the end it becomes a permanent part of the rod and cannot be removed without the exertion of a great deal of force. The parts are cheaply made and assembled and when once assembled will not separate in any ordinary use.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the `parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider 4myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall withinl the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa

1. The combination with an ornamental device having an opening, of a cup seated on the ornamental device and having a depressed portion enterin the opening therein, a rod. clamped in sai cup, a rod passing through the ornamental device andthe depressed por tion ofthe cup, and means on the rod engaging the cup and permanently securing the saine in place. Y

2. The combination with an ornamental device, of a rod therethrough, a shoulder on the rod holding a cup against the ornamental device, a washer on the rod in the cup and se- ,cured by upsetting the rod, and a tubular curtain-rod in the cup and the latter clamped thereon.

3. A curtain-rod end comprising an ornamental device, a rod therethrough, a head into which a roughened or irregular end of the rod is driven, a cup on the rod, a shoulder on the rod in the cup, and a concave-convex washer secured in the cup by upsetting the rod thereagainst.

4. A curtain-rod end, comprising an ornamental ball having opposite openings, a disk at one opening, a cup at the other opening, a rod passed through the cup, ball, and disk and having a shoulder in the cup, an ornamental head having a cylindrical bore into which the rod is tightly driven, a concave-convex washer on the rod in the cup, and said rod upset against the washer.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

` THOMAS C. RICHARDS. Witnesses:

ARTHUR A. GRIFFIN, Lnwrs REYNOLDS.V 

